Shirtless, they’d stretch out in the long grass and take the healing brunt of a noontime sun that gave no clue of the thunderheads it already, in secret, had begun to breed.

~ Paul Russell

Paul Russell Grass Shirtless Sun Thunderheards

It was the week after Easter holidays, and he was journeying along with Smart the mare and the light spring-cart, watching the damp slopes of the hill-sides as they steamed in the warmth of the sun, which at this unsettled season shone on the grass with the freshness of an occasional inspector rather than as an accustomed proprietor.

~ Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy Grass Spring Sun

The children had had an argument once about whether there was more grass in the world or more sand, and Roger said that of course there must be more sand because of under the sea; in every ocean all over the world there would be sand, if you looked deep down. But there could be grass too, argued Deborah, a waving grass, a grass that nobody had ever seen, and the colour of that ocean grass would be darker than any grass on the surface of the world, in fields or prairies or people's gardens in America. It would be taller than tress and it would move like corn in the wind. (The Pool

~ Daphne Du Maurier

Daphne Du Maurier Grass Ocean Sand Sea Underwater

It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.

~ Maud Hart Lovelace

Maud Hart Lovelace Description Grass June Roses Summer Sunshine

I wish I could wrap up the glitter star-green of this moment and hand it to you like an angel gift. Give you the heat lightning flying in jagged silence over the distant mountains. And the smell of September prairie grass and the even fainter scent of October pine now descending . . .

~ Carew Papritz

Carew Papritz Angel Carew Papritz Flying Gifts Grass Legacy Quotes Lightning October Pine Prairie Quotes Quotes By Carew Papritz The Legacy Letters

The grass is yellow on both sides, envy turning on of them green.

~ Meghan Blistinsky

Meghan Blistinsky Envy Grass Perspectives

A few of the world's most famous non-American novelists have large followings in the United States, among them Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Guenter Grass, who were both popular even before winning the Nobel.

~ Stephen Kinzer

Stephen Kinzer Winning World Grass

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

~ Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson Me Grass Uninteresting

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

~ Helen Keller

Helen Keller Welcome Me Grass

The fulness of the godhead dwelt in every blade of grass.

~ Elias Hicks

Elias Hicks Grass Every Godhead

I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows.

~ Jilly Cooper

Jilly Cooper Love Long Grass

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

~ William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth Flower Sympathy Grass

I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes.

~ Ron Perlman

Ron Perlman Grass Whatever Breathing

God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.

~ Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay Heart Push Grass

I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.

~ Whoopi Goldberg

Whoopi Goldberg Color Grass Whatever

Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.

~ Rupert Brooke

Rupert Brooke Sun Grass Lovely

Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.

~ Mahmoud Darwish

Mahmoud Darwish Grass Growing Human

I was actually born in L.A. My sisters and I were playing in a parking lot, and my dad was like, 'Nah, nah, nah. Let's go give 'em some grass.'

~ Rachel Keller

Rachel Keller Born Grass Give